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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was so terrifying to women not about to be married?
(a) Being childless and alone.
(b) Not knowing what they were going to do with their lives.
(c) Not fitting in with social requirements.
(d) Knowing they will never achieve their goals.

2. What does Parsons find in sexual segregation?
(a) It is functional.
(b) It is necessary.
(c) It is integral.
(d) It is archaic.

3. Why does mankind not completely live in the present?
(a) The ideologies of the superego live in the past.
(b) They are more concerned about the future.
(c) They are able to blow things too far out of proportion.
(d) They are plagued with their knowledge of a past.

4. What problem arises in women who marry first and ask questions later?
(a) They don't know who they are, and their role in the world.
(b) They have nothing to be impassioned about.
(c) All of these.
(d) They never grow up.

5. What kind of pharmaceuticals were women taking?
(a) Laxatives.
(b) Mood elevators.
(c) Tranquilizers.
(d) Sleeping pills.

6. With which did the feminist movement gain strength?
(a) None of these.
(b) The Revolution.
(c) The movement to free the slaves.
(d) The emancipation of American from the British throne.

7. What did Margaret Mead's work persuade women to do?
(a) Pursue an education despite the potential cost of family life.
(b) All of these.
(c) Give up their humanity in exchange for their femininity.
(d) Give up their femininity in exchange for their humanity.

8. What problem wasn't caused by soap or cured by Cortisone?
(a) Hives.
(b) Housewife's Blight.
(c) Mumps.
(d) Chicken pox.

9. What is the climax of adolescence?
(a) Enrolling in university.
(b) Having children.
(c) Deciding what one wants to be.
(d) Getting married and having kids.

10. How did Freud view his soon-to-be wife?
(a) As an object.
(b) As a child.
(c) Both of these.
(d) None of these.

11. Which women were happiest?
(a) Unmarried women.
(b) Married women.
(c) Educated women.
(d) Uneducated women.

12. Which statement best fits the main problem?
(a) Women had become too comfortable.
(b) Women had lost their self identity.
(c) Women weren't challenged in their lifestyle.
(d) Women longed for careers.

13. In regards to both of Freud's main theories, what does it say about his cultural upbringing?
(a) All of these.
(b) He thought women were meant to be as slaves.
(c) He thought that women were meant to be taken advantage of.
(d) Women were considered inferior.

14. Why do women participate in politics according to "Women's Home Companion" September 1955?
(a) It concerns their home and husband.
(b) They pay attention to political parties.
(c) They desire change in government.
(d) Politics is a topic for which both parties can share.

15. What is a compliment to a woman in the act of creation of a child?
(a) Rearing the child.
(b) Maternal instinct.
(c) The desire to protect the home.
(d) Breastfeeding.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lesson could girls not help but learn in college between 1945 and 1960?

2. What was women's unhappiness blamed on?

3. Why does an educator have to be daring to suggest non-conformity in regards to sex based education?

4. How long did it take "Sarah and the Seaplane" to become "Sarah the Sandwich Maker"?

5. What instrument did men in Bali use?

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